Christ against Nazism and Christendom

Benjamin Fondane on the lust of reason and the longing of faith

I’m working feverishly now to finish this biblical Christology (due end of the month), and the section I’m currently writing compares Calvin’s sermons on Micah with the philosophy and poetry of Benjamin Fondane, the Jewish existentialist poet and philosopher who was murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau just two weeks before the Russians liberated the camp.

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